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...kitchen table he is building for Mum ("I'm not very good at building-I wonder if it will stand up"). If the skies are fair, he may be in the fields, helping with the shearing. He loves to fall back on a pile of just-shorn wool, burrow down in it, enjoy the aroma, turn his face up and feel the tang of the air, the strength...
...also Commoner who first suggested-in his 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle-that U.S. industry be restructured to conform to ecology's unbending laws. Specifically, he recommended that polluting products (detergents, for example, or synthetic textiles) be replaced by good old natural ones (soap, or cotton and wool). Just how to accomplish such a major switch in industrial direction Commoner did not say and of course not much of what he hoped for came about. Now he is trying to close the circle in a different way. The Poverty of Power is a closely reasoned, adult primer on energy...
...DOTTY OLD women shuffled along, their heads bobbing slightly, their eyes a little glazed. One wore a plain black shift, the other a camel suit and wool hat. No one recognized them, but they were led to a dugout box. The two never exchanged a word, never even a glance, and that fit neatly into the legend: everyone knew that years ago Mrs. Babe Ruth and Mrs. Lou Gehrig had had a feud which split their husbands' friendship. And, the old story continued, it wasn't healed until 1939 when Ruth, in an open-necked shirt and blindingly white double...
Senator Henry Jackson, 63. Has allergies to adhesive tape, strawberries, eggs, plated gold and wool, and suffers chronic nasal stuffiness. In 1974, kidney stone removed with no complications; recovered from pneumonia in 1945 and 1951. Generally "in excellent overall health...
...accused the government of mortgaging New Zealand's future by borrowing heavily overseas (more than $1 billion since 1972). The debts have been incurred to protect the economy from recession at a time of sagging world demand for the nation's exports (principally lamb, beef, dairy products, wool, and pulp and paper products...